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• Small migratory birds age faster in stressful places, study reveals

  26 February 2013

  

   

• New evidence of extraterrestrial life may come from dying stars

  25 February 2013

  

   

• Browsing suburbia: Virginia’s parceled-up farms and forests are ideal refuge for white-tailed deer

  22 February 2013

  

   

• First earth-sized planets found

  21 February 2013

  

   

• Russian Meteor Q&A with Smithsonian Expert Marc Fries

  15 February 2013

  

   

• Highly distorted supernova remnant seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory

  14 February 2013

  

   

• With no credit to Cupid, white-naped crane couples remain faithful for life

  13 February 2013

  

   

• Klondike, puppy born from a frozen embryo, fetches good news for endangered animals

  8 February 2013

  

   

• New study proves the remora’s sucker disc is in fact a highly modified dorsal fin / Q&A with taxonomist David Johnson

  8 February 2013

  

   

• Earth-like planets discovered right next door to Earth

  6 February 2013

  

   

• “Darwin: A Graphic Biography,” new release from Smithsonian Books

  4 February 2013

  

   

• Cats kill 2.4 billion birds annually

  31 January 2013

  

   

• A wild giant panda from the Website Smithsonian Wild

  25 January 2013

  

   

• Common tropical bat uses echolocation with precision previously considered impossible, new experiments reveal

  25 January 2013

  

   

• HI-C adds big piece to the solar corona puzzle

  24 January 2013

  

   

• NASA’s IRIS spacecraft scheduled to launch in April

  23 January 2013